Truly Tops (Nelson Marlborough) Stepneyville, South Island, New Zealand
By SoBad on 15-Jul-11. Waypoint GC3069J

Logged with permission of CO. Puzzle solved a few months ago, and two visits in different months yielded no cache. CO has confirmed it is gone. Thanks SoBads.

Puzzle rather outdated and cache missing so archiving rather than reissuing it.

Had a meeting at a nearby building so thought it only right that we find a cache on the way. tftc

I am in Nelson for the day so over lunch took the work van for a joy ride. This is on my GPS so should be a solved puzzle, but the title didn't seem familiar (I probably solved it years ago), so I had to pull out the cellphone to confirm I was working off updated coords. Yep, its solved.
Quick easy find. People around but apparently I blended in. I could not have been more invisible even if I was wearing a hi-vis vest!

A Sunday unexpectedly up my sleeve, mrs capperz at work for the morning, nightowl19 round a friends house and just me and Tally the dog with (potentially) a whole day to kill time. Only one thing for it then, a trip 'over the hill'. On the list of wants was a full set of 8 recently listed eggs and a second look at some caches that last time I came were either missing, or I missed when looking. I've got a whole collection of solved puzzles burning a hole in my G P S too so keen to turn them into smilies if possible. Some I've had solved since prior to moving down here to the Mainland so keen to convert.
All up a successful trip; 35 caches found, 18 puzzles and 17 traditional caches. All 8 eggs were cracked, including a dirty half dozen before noon, got all the numbers required and will go for the final another time. A lovely sunny day today to herald the change of daylight saving and my smoke alarm tested itself, at 0430 this morning!!
This was a recent solve and I vowed that the dog could have a run at G Z. Upon arriving decided not to do that and headed to G Z. This ended up being the first of 2 of these I'd visit today, and helped me work out where the cache would be on the second one
Replaced as found T F T P and C SoBad

Good hide quick find
TFTC
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Been here before with my Dad but logging on my own account now so it was a quick find in the rain.

TFTC. Out to play for the weekend with the destination of Nelson. Caching crew on board were Karma Reprint, Team_Gaters and TheWanglers, logged as PKTT for this trip. Gosh did we have fun looking for caches, most of which we found, in this very beautiful part of our country.

Oh no day 2 of our Nelson cachathon. Today was about tidying up a few loose ends, having a great time and heading for home. Four very excited kids!!

Night caching now.

Thanks SoBad for creating the puzzle and placing the cache.

On a big mission up to Nelson over Show Weekend with Purdiepurdie, Karma Reprint and Team_Gaters we signed our cache finds as PKTT the 'power packet' but we called ourselves the 'G4'. We headed off on Friday morning at 4.30am. We had a mission that we wanted to perform in Nelson and this was the day to attempt it. After a good nights sleep we headed out for the day for more laughs, caches and poke our noses here and there, driving and memory making. It was a great day we didn't stop until about 11.30pm back to base for a cuppa and relax and getting ready to do it all again tomorrow!
Nice puzzle. Quick find, onto the next... well no. Off home to bed. It's been a long day. [^][^][^]

Thanks for the cache.
#2537
Cache 76 for 76 caches today
Cache 171 out of 192

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Canterbury Show Weekend so headed North to Nelson for a fun caching 3 day weekend with TheWanglers, Karma Reprint & Purdiepurdie......for speed, efficiency & to prevent RSI we signed our logs PKTT.
Nice wee puzzle that was soon under control and solved. In the area at night and we made a quick find and sign. Last of the evening - a long day of fun and adventure and a few caches ticked off. Cheers and thanks.

Solved the puzzle a few days back and with a couple of errands to run in the GZ area, we stopped by for a hunt.

Thought the cache might be a victim of nearby beautification works, but were relieved to find the location and cache pretty quickly.

TFTC

#167

Time to drive home, collecting a few solved puzzles on the way. DNFed before I started logging dnf's. Converted to a FOUND today. Thanks for the hide.

A fairly quick one once the lady and her three kids had loaded up the groceries next to GZ. Cheers

We did this little puzzle before heading off to Nelson to make the find before we met our visitors from Germany. TFTC.

12761… Managed to find a park next to GZ, took a bit of searching but we Truly came up Tops with a find, TFTC.

Bit of a hard one to spot, and rather disappointed at the location and hide after such a good puzzle.

These nano's can be so easy to miss!!!! Look, look, then look again.... Gotcha!!! Great puzzle. Get's a favourite from me. TFTC!!

on our way to my work Christmas party, brief stop with some help from integersmirk. TFTC

Nearly 3 weeks later, back post-11pm on a Thursday after a band practice, had the place to myself. Not where I had imagined, but soon found signed and returned. An enjoyable puzzle and find, both of them curious, slightly misunderstood and then resolved. TFTC!

Had a nosey for this one, but I can officially confirm 4.30pm on a sunny Friday afternoon is not the best time. Just in case you were wondering. Will be back when I can look harder

Eventually sorted out the puzzle & missed picking this cache up on several passes at this location but made sure we got this before farewelling Nelson, a truly top location to cache.

A quick trip to the supermarket on a very wet Sunday night also meant an opportunity to find this cache after solving the puzzle some time ago. The weather ensured we weren't too bothered with muggles either. Most puzzles are beyond my comprehension but this one I enjoyed. TFTC.

Sometimes you need to go shopping no matter the weather. A puzzle solved some time ago came to mind to ease the pain of having to go out in the teeming rain. Under a brolly and between a few muggles coming and going we were ready for a DNF when after a third and final check the wee fellow appeared in hand. Much fun. TFTC

Thoroughly enjoyed the puzzle and made a quick final find. TFTC

#3529. Muggles made the finding a bit tricky, but we got there in the end. TFTC.

Took a bit to nut out the puzzle - I had the right idea, just couldn't find the right....
A quick find at GZ despite it being muggle central. Have signed as SWAT (StreetWalker And Troodles) to save space. Had an odd experience a few mins later, I was following StreetWalker as we walked by the river, and out of the corner of my eye, saw something small coming from the riverside at 100 miles an hour, it hit SW's foot then seemed ricochet into the nearby garden. We still don't know what it was - a turbo powered rat?
TFTC.

I may have even solved this puzzle on my own. Wonders will never cease, OR is there life after Google?
TFTC

Another interesting puzzle solved while staying in Motueka. A few people around near GZ this afternoon but we were able to locate and retrieve the cache without being obvious. Thanks.

# 5420

Solved this a while back, swung back to grab it before heading back to Mum's for dinner. Cheers Gav [10442]

just taking it easy slipping back into work. Far too muggy in the office so off to Truly Tops. TY.

In the city for the urban art exhibition, so picked up an urban cache on the way. Good one. TFTC

I was driving, Sidewaze navigating. "Park here," said Sidewaze. Wow! Any closer and it would have been a "smash" and grab. TFTC

This puzzle was similar to several others solved recently - looked at it several times, was on the right track but just hadn't found the right key. Then picked it up again on Sunday morning and solved in a few minutes. One down - so many more to go so limited time for reading these days! TFTC #2529

Finally nutted this one out while Stretch0 was still at work on Friday - so only the house heard the wahoo when geochecker came back with congratulations - Today was Stretch0's contribution even with busy muggles everywhere he came up with the goods - so team work on this one !!!! thanks for the puzzle and the cache

Another cache worked out yesterday whilst the rain came through and our co-ordinates took us to the right spot. Cache was easily removed when the area finally cleared out a bit TFTC

A late night find to avoid muggles, after a nudge in the right direction.

TFTC

Nice One!!!!!!!!!No worries on this one. For once, a puzzle results were obtained with very little difficulty. Wow, not many like that. No problem with muggles on a Sunday morning. Do be carefull retrieving and replacing the cache. Much fun. Thanks

Needed a pointer to get me started, but then I saw clues in every word! Easy to retrieve on an early-morning bike ride. TFTC

Hint added after listening to the day's news.

Called at gz 3 times during the course of the day, only to find cars full of people parked less than a metre from the cache- a wee bit too crowded for me! Finally had a clean run later in the day; quick find too. Good one, thanks.

Got around to solving this one today and headed for GZ after a trip into town with the family. No red herrings or cryptic hints needed with this puzzle! TFTC, Biggles.

FTF (I think). A bit of trouble reading this one, no trouble with the find but trouble filling in the log. Got there in the end and pretty sure the writing before mine was the cache owners. So hard to read without my glasses. TFTC and the puzzle.

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